To only be free is to be proletarian
Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
They that can give up essential iberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
During the Great Depression, Germans rallied to one-man-one-party rule, uniforms, flags and rifles, mass rallies, racial hatred, and appeals to national glory. What would happen in other countries if small businessmen, housewives, artisans, white-collar workers, and students felt betrayed by an alien political establishment, a fraying welfare net, and chronic economic dislocations?"
I have only some initials to say: NAFTA; GATT; WTO; IMF. Strike, the CEO's and polititcians say, and instead of bringing foreign workers to the factory, we'll simply move the factory to the foreign workers. And if the foreign workers strike, so will the death squads.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Don't you know the difference between the two economic systems? Under capitalism man exploits man. But, under communism, it's just the other way around.
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through
I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control.
I stand by all the misstatements I may have made.
Politics is made up of two words. "poli" which is Greek for "many", and "tics", which are bloodsucking insects.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblin, all of them imaginary.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.
The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
Ideas are for more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
L'etat c'est moi.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be governed means that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted, registered, entered in a census, taxed, stamped, priced, assessed, patented, licensed, authorized, recommended, admonished, prevented, reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subjected to tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the name of public utility and the general good. Then, at the first sign of resistance or word of complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled, beaten up, garroted, imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged, sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to cap all, ridiculed, mocked, outraged and dishonored. That is government, that is its justice and its morality! ...O human personality! How can it be that you have cowered in such subjection for sixty centures?"
Politics is perhaps the only profession for wich no preparation is thought necessary.
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling in religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment, or free exercise, of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority. But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe a day of fasting & prayer. That is, that I should indirectly assume to the U.S. an authority over religious exercises which the Constitution has directly precluded them from.... I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct it's exercises, it's discipline, or it's doctrines; nor of the religious societies that the general government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting & prayer are religious exercises. The enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises, & the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands, where the constitution has deposited it. I am aware that the practice of my predecessors may be quoted.... Be this as it may, every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, & mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the U.S. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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